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SWAT team searches home in West Augustine

St. Johns County SWAT team searched a home Friday that detectives believe was the “center of organized criminal activity,” according to a St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office release.

Complaints of criminal activity at the home in the 400 block of Aiken Street in West Augustine have come to the Sheriffs’ Office over the past several months.

Crime in the area is also believed to “directly related” to shootings in West Augustine, according to the release.

Detectives searched the home and found around five grams of cocaine, and they arrested Belinda Joyce McKenzie, 40, on charges of possession of cocaine with intent to sell within a 1,000 feet of a place of worship or school, maintaining a drug dwelling and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the release.

Details about how the shootings are connected could not been released because the investigation is ongoing, said Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Cpl. Catherine Payne.

Anyone with information about the case can call Detective Gene Tolbert at 209-3985. To remain anonymous and possibly be eligible for a cash reward, anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida at 1-(888) 277-TIPS (8477).